Trade with your brain, not your emotions

The Market is 70% emotion and 30% facts. It used to be 50/50. How else do you explain how you can go up 2.5% one day fall 3% the next and then rise the next day. All the while using Europe as the reason for both the high and low.

#$%$

I do not trade on what the market MIGHT DO, I trade on what the market IS DOING. The first rule of INVESTING is buy low and sell high. If you can do this you will be a winner. Do not buy when the market is screaming skyward like a jet fighter plane. You should have bought in when the market was low. Just wait. The factors which cause market swings are always 'in play' and the market will calm down and come down so that you can spend your money. It is just like when I was a little kid and rode on the Merry Go Round (carousel). We had to wait for it to come to a stop before we could get on (buy at the low) or get off (sell at a peak). It is really very simple, eh? The only gambling going on is the gamble on how your individual stock holdings will do. And if you pick the good stuff and stay away from the trash, you will probably do very well.

Too many people trade on headline risk and forget one thing: headlines are designed to do one thing, sell ad space. What sells more ad space, doom and gloom or positivity? The US economy is strong, just two headwinds of employment and housing otherwise underlying financial numbers for US Stocks are there. This is why you use a financial advisor. Youre emotional about your money. Im emotional about my money. I am NOT emotional about your money, I am logical. Sadly most people these days dont draw the line between "trading" and "investing" as many people are now attempting to time the market with their 401k's and IRA's, and they choose wrong most of the time.

The market wants to inflict pain? Geez i did'nt realize it was a living entity. More like Hymie and his HFT computers F@#ing with our head because there is no other way to make money but to steal it. They own this board.

Definitely, but it's easy to say than to act.

Yep you are trading people. And guess what is good at extracting wealth from you??
COMPUTERS!!!!! Have you put it together. The robots were not brought here by foreign nations to take over the USA. The don't move on dozer tracks and fire machienguns.
They were made by our countrymen bankers and wall st giants. To extract the wealth of the county and then drop us like a used concubine and move on.

This a no brainer.

i can't trade my brain. that's the last thing i got. the banks stole everything i had.

Just never fall in love with any stock.

Jimmy Carter had it right when he said we have become a nation not defined by who we are but by what we have...

Media controls the emotions in the market. One day there is fiction in the air, then the next day the world is ending kinda news. The media should be held accountable for the fact, or fiction they print.

My brain says the world is doomed. Sell everything. Buy bullets.
But, my emotions say, PLEASE let it not be true.
So, I hope and gamble that it is not true.
Follow my brain and bail on everything ???